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In the U.S.A., 16.4% of energy comes from nuclear;

5% from oil; 12.7% from hydro; 56.9% from coal; 8.5%

from natural gas and 0.5% from others (including

solar).

The Calvert Cliff Plant

The nuclear energy from the Calvert Cliff Plant is

the cheapest in the area.

nuclear fuel of about 1 cm. in

U S.$10 (including

On e

sma 11 pallet of

length

costing

produce

transportation) can

electricity which requires a coal plant one ton of

coal to produce, costing

transportation.) Because the

U.S.$65 (including

capital cost of this

particular plant was relatively low, the operation

cost of nuclear electricity supplied by it is very

cheap indeed. But other plants took a much longer

time to complete and SO the capital cost was much

higher, So that in the U.S.A. it is no longer

claimed that nuclear

conventional electricity.

electricity is cheaper than

But it was emphasised to

will be cheaper if the

changed, for example,

me that nuclear energy

regulatory provisions are

there is to be only one public enquiry which takes

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place right at the

beginning and there is to be

standardization of nuclear reactors, in which case

the total time for the construction of a new nuclear

plant can be reduced to 8 years.